Chris Barker

Tax Director at BDO

Greater Ipswich Area

About

Experience

  • Tax Director at BDO
    Dec 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 7 mos

    I help business owners and management teams identify tax efficient solutions which help drive business growth and enable them to focus on running the business rather than worrying over ever expanding tax complexities. I have helped a number of clients with succession planning, advising vendors and buyers; assisting with due diligence (vendor DD and buyer DD); guiding owners and the management team through sales and pre-sale structuring, Management Buy-Outs, Employee Ownership Trusts and Enterprise Management Incentive schemes; and I have worked with business owners to separate complex groups by way of tax efficient demergers.

  • Technical Tax Advisor and Tax Editor at Ross Martin Tax Consultancy
    Aug 2016 - Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    I was a Virtual Tax Partner for Ross Martin Tax Consultancy's VTaxP support service and a technical tax editor. The VTaxP service provides technical tax advice to accountants and businesses on an ad hoc basis. A lot of my advisory work is on tax aspects of corporate restructuring, demergers, family tax planning and complex VAT issues. I do however advise on most areas of UK tax, including Income Tax, CGT, IHT, Trusts and Estates, Corporation Tax and SDLT. We have a number of accountants we advise, so the breadth of queries received is vast. I also do tax editing, writing and webinar CPD presentations for the popular web-based tax information service www.rossmartin.co.uk, which aims to support firms of accountants and advisers by acting as their own personal intranet.

  • Tax Senior Manager at Grant Thornton UK LLP
    Mar 2015 - Jul 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

    I provided advisory services across a mix of taxes to a range of clients, including CT advice for large multinational corporates, including PLCs, ultra-high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs, owner managed businesses etc. I was also heavily involved in tax planning for clients working with our corporate finance team (selling, buying and corporate restructuring). I headed up the OMB, entrepreneurs and private client offering in the Ipswich and Chelmsford offices and for the last six months, the Cambridge office as well, alongside my other advisory work.

  • Tax Manager at Scrutton Bland
    Sep 2012 - Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Tax manager dealing with tax advisory matters in all areas of direct and indirect tax. I also headed up the VAT advisory offering.

  • Tax Manager at Kingston Smith LLP
    Mar 2007 - Jul 2012 · 5 yrs 5 mos

    In mixed tax - Tax & Legal Consultancy department